Restaurant owner accused of robbing banks

Two brothers who own a restaurant in Punta Gorda have each been arrested for separate crimes. One is accused of robbing several banks, the other is accused of selling drugs. Now their father is taking his name off the restaurant.

Deputies say the man seen diving over the counter wearing a bicycle helmet in surveillance footage from an Apollo Beach bank is Marcus Lloyd. They say he's demanding cash.

"I don't know why he'd do something like that," said his father Big John Lloyd.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office had been looking for Marcus Lloyd since July. He was arrested in Palm Beach County in August when authorities there say he robbed another bank.

He's the suspect in at least four robberies across Florida, miles away from where his dad taught him the secrets to slow grilling beef brisket.

"I was surprised, he done that years ago and I thought all that was behind him," says Big John Lloyd.

Marcus spent 11 years in prison for robbing banks in the 1990's. His dad thought Marcus turned his life around after the family opened a BBQ restaurant this year.

"I let them basically run it. They were in charge of it and they ran the BBQ place and they used my name as Big John and that drew a lot of people," Big John said.

Well known for his decades of catering, Big John says the restaurant business slowed during the summer but he never imagined his sons were strapped for cash.

Then Johnny Lloyd, Marcus's older brother, was arrested last week after Charlotte County Deputies say he sold them cocaine in a drug sting.

"I never knew Johnny being in trouble with drugs or anything," his dad says.

Johnny is out on bond now, running the restaurant by himself. After all the trouble, Big John has taken his name off the building and is leaving the business in the hands of his boys renamed Lloyd Brothers BBQ.

"I got a reputation in town, most of the people in town know me. I was born in Punta Gorda. It's got to be done my way or I'm out," Big John said.

He hopes the restaurant is successful and will continue his own catering business.